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Books by Suzette Haden Elgin
Native Tongue
by Suzette Haden Elgin
· published 1984 · read 2020-10-19
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Interesting, but ultimately not satisfying. Imagine a Handmaid's Tale style dystopian future but with xenolinguistics. There's a subtle female language-based resistance, and the whole setup is neat, but it doesn't really go anywhere. Life goes on, women are mistreated, leadership remains the samel